The Half Moon was built to help Coney Island compete with the beach resort Atlantic City, New Jersey.
It is best known as the location where Abe Reles, informant for the FBI who brought down numerous members of Murder, Inc., either jumped, fell or was pushed to his death on November 12, 1941, from room 623, where he was in protective custody of the New York City Police Department, a few hours before he was scheduled to testify against Albert Anastasia.
[1] The name "Half Moon" refers to the name of explorer Henry Hudson's ship, which anchored off Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn (the location of Coney Island), while searching for a short cut to Asia.
In the 1950s, it became a senior citizens' home called the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center.
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